Congress chief Rahul Gandhi visited Virendra Akhara, Chhara village, Bahadurgarh, Haryana amid controversy across the Wrestling Federation Of India (WFI). He met wrestlers, including Bajrang Punia. Chhara village is residence to Punia.
“He came to see our wrestling routine. He did wrestling. He came to see the day-to-day activities of a wrestler,” mentioned Poonia on Gandhi visiting Virender Arya Akhara in Chhara village of Jhajjar district.
Priyanka Gandhi met wrestler Sakshi Malik
Earlier, Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met Sakshi Malik at the wrestler’s residence to specific her solidarity with Malik who introduced her retirement from wrestling in protest towards the election of Sanjay Singh because the president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI). The WFI election was held on December 21, with Sanjay Singh, a loyalist of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, and his panel profitable the polls by large margins. However, the Sports Ministry, later, suspended the WFI as controversy over the election of its chief snowballed.
Meanwhile, Priyanka accused the Centre on Monday of spreading “false news” about dissolving the WFI and alleged that its actions have been stopped to unfold confusion and shelter a BJP MP who has been accused of sexual harassment by feminine wrestlers.
She additionally alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at all times protects the accused with all its would possibly and tortures the victims at any time when incidents of atrocities on girls come to gentle.
“The BJP is spreading false information about dissolving the wrestling federation. The federation has not been dissolved, its actions have been stopped in order that the accused will be saved by spreading confusion.
Do they need to stoop to this degree to suppress the voice of aggrieved girls?” the Congress common secretary requested in a put up in Hindi on X.
“The well-known players who made the country proud accused a BJP MP of sexual harassment and the government stood with the accused. The victims were tortured and the accused was rewarded,” she mentioned, including that even the prime minister and the house minister didn’t take note of the difficulty.
Wrestlers’ protests towards Brij Bhushan
Several high wrestlers, including Olympic medallists Malik and Bajrang Punia and World Championship medallist Vinesh Phogat, have levelled allegations of sexual harassment towards Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the MP from Kaiserganj in Uttar Pradesh, and the case is being heard by the Delhi High Court. The former WFI chief has denied the allegations towards him and claimed that he’s being focused beneath a conspiracy hatched by Congress leaders.
